03154nam 2200457 450 991015783430332120230120075409.00-19-181147-5(CKB)3710000000586302(StDuBDS)EDZ0001297997(MiAaPQ)EBC4842316(MiAaPQ)EBC7037663(EXLCZ)99371000000058630220150729d2016 fy| 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierDiotima at the barricades French feminists read Plato /Paul Allen Miller[electronic resource]Oxford :Oxford University Press,2016.1 online resourceClassics in theory0-19-964020-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the sublime freedom of the ancients: Beauvoir, Cixous, and Duras on gender, the erotic, and transcendence : Antiquity and the acte gratuit in Simone de Beauvoir -- Orpheus in the cave: Hélène Cixous beyond transcendence -- Marguerite Duras: writing and the feminine -- Conclusion. 1 The dark continent: Luce Irigaray, The Cave, and the history of Western metaphysics : Theoretical and historical preliminaries: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Lacan -- Reflective surfaces: The Cave, the Chora, and representation -- Mind the gap: the representation of presentation in Republic 5 and 6 -- Irigaray, The Ethics of Sexual Difference, and the Symposium -- Concluding dialogues. 2 Revolution in platonic language: The Chora in Kristeva : Dreaming of the Chora: poetic language and the mother -- From speaking subject to semiotic Chora -- Plato's Chora: Kristeva, Democritus, and Derrida -- Chora, Khôra, [Chora] -- Conclusion. 3 Platonic Eros: Kristeva sends her love to Foucault and Lacan : This love train requires a transfer -- Manic masculine Eros and the maternal sublime -- The third man theme: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Agathon in Lacan -- THe erotics of reciprocity: true love in Plato and Faucault -- Conclusion. 4 Socrates, Freud, and Dionysus: the double life and death of Sarah Kofman : The Cave and Capital: Derrida, Plato, and Marx -- Dreamwork: Plato, Freud, and Irigaray -- Socrate(s) bifrons: philosophy, irony, and castration. Epilogue: Plato and truth. Bibliography -- Index.'Diotima at the Barricades' argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition.Classics in theory.Feminist theoryFranceHistoryFranceIntellectual lifeHistory.fastFeminist theoryHistory.305.42094420.10bclMiller Paul Allen1959-1146107StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910157834303321Diotima at the barricades3401220UNINA